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@mofanning.co.uk
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Novelist. Editor. Chronicler of emotional chaos. Author of LISA DOYLE IS ABSOLUTELY FINE A British romcom with bite, out now mofanning.co.uk

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Mo Fanning @mofanning.co.uk · 5h
Publishers love a queer success story. Who pays for the years before it becomes one? My BookBrunch piece on indie authors footing the bill, and Queer the Shelves trying to change that. www.bookbrunch.co.uk/page/free-ar...
A cream graphic with large text: "The trade wants queer books." in black and "Who's paying for the next ones?" in blue. In the bottom right is a row of six coloured book spines, followed by an empty dashed outline where the next book should be. At the bottom left: "Read the full piece at bookbrunch.co.uk" and the Mo Fanning wordmark.
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Mo Fanning @mofanning.co.uk · 29/09/2026
Check out Queer the Shelves by Nicci Robinson & Vic Villasenor on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/qts...
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Queer the Shelves
The LGBTQ+ subscription reading app we need, the one we’ve all been dreaming about, is finally coming. Be part of the revolution.
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Mo Fanning @mofanning.co.uk · 29/09/2026
Check out Queer the Shelves by Nicci Robinson & Vic Villasenor on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/qts...
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Queer the Shelves
The LGBTQ+ subscription reading app we need, the one we’ve all been dreaming about, is finally coming. Be part of the revolution.
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Mo Fanning @mofanning.co.uk · 23/09/2026
This is just too much pressure for me. I'm going to end up with six bottles of vodka and 300 toilet rolls on 23 December, aren't I?
Ocado kicking off Christmas with an email heralding 'THE OFFICIAL START OF CHRISTMAS' with delivery slots opening tomorrow
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Mo Fanning @mofanning.co.uk · 23/09/2026
I've spent years typing "gay novel funny nobody dies" into search bars. Queer the Shelves Infinite is a reading app where every book is queer, so the search bar can stop guessing. Kickstarter opens Tuesday 29 Sept. www.kickstarter.com/projects/qts...
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Coming soon: Queer the Shelves
The LGBTQ+ subscription reading app we need, the one we’ve all been dreaming about, is finally coming. Be part of the revolution.
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Mo Fanning @mofanning.co.uk · 17/09/2026
I'm meeting her for tea and scones on Tuesday to discuss a small endorsement fee. Feel certain this can't be a scam. Not like the whole Wilbur Smith debacle. Egg on my face there.
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Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I just think that risking your life at a moment's notice to save people you've never met in exchange for no money is a better expression of patriotism than dressing up like a Poundshop paramilitary and intimidating families with kids trying to get onto a ferry.
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Mo Fanning @mofanning.co.uk · 09/09/2026
Bag of wet concrete in one corner, leftover builder's chip wrappers in the other?
How to make your house smell new
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Mo Fanning @mofanning.co.uk · 09/09/2026
And just in case that didn't work...
Headline: From releasing pathogens to nuclear weapons: How AI could end humanity in less than five years
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Mo Fanning @mofanning.co.uk · 06/09/2026
When people ask why the general mood is so low in the UK, why not take a look at our press who love cheery tales like this www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
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All the ways Putin could attack UK with devastating consequences
As Europe directly calls Russia out over an attempted drone attack on a German airport, defence expert Francis Tusa explains how a Russian hybrid warfare campaign could easily cause widespread disrupt...
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Mo Fanning @mofanning.co.uk · 02/09/2026
In UK politics, a 62-year-old former commodities trader who joined the Conservative Party in 1978 considers himself a 'new kid on the block'.
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Mo Fanning @mofanning.co.uk · 31/08/2026
This headline alone sums up the insanity we're allowing www.ibtimes.co.uk/mitch-mcconn...
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Experts Warn Sen McConnell 'May Be Dead' or Incapacitated After Staff Stop Giving Public Updates on His Condition
Mitch McConnell's extended absence from public view has led to speculation about his health, despite confirmation from his office that he is recovering at home after a fall and mild pneumonia.
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Rob Davies @byrobdavies.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
"I want your children's lungs to be smaller and less functional" is a bold electoral strategy.
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Mo Fanning @mofanning.co.uk · 31/08/2026
I rather suspect the plan is to have moved into his Moscow-sponsored dacha by the time justice comes calling.
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Mo Fanning @mofanning.co.uk · 31/08/2026
My 7 stages of novel writing: 5K: I have an idea 15K: The idea has legs 30K: Not the legs I thought, but still... 50K: Many darlings to kill, maybe kill it all and be done 75K: Surely to God, it should be done soon 90K: I can edit it down later 100K: What in all holy fuck was I thinking?
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Arbaz Kakkar5 @arbazkakkar5.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
IT WAS NEVER THE IMMGRANTS IN SMALL BOATS The world is 700% richer than in 1970 but the average person is only 8% richer Because the richest 0.01% are 4000% richer We are all being robbed every second of every day, and it doesn't matter how much profit or growth there is It will never reach you
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Mo Fanning @mofanning.co.uk · 27/08/2026
Brilliant #writing tip from Libby Page over at The Novelry. When #editing, ask yourself: What is this scene doing that no other scene in the story is doing? Helps kill darlings.
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Mo Fanning @mofanning.co.uk · 26/08/2026
A car with electric windows A real effect electric fire A static caravan Pate A set of matching crockery
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Mo Fanning @mofanning.co.uk · 24/08/2026
He'd struggle to read a seventeen letter page.
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Mo Fanning @mofanning.co.uk · 18/08/2026
So it smells of nothing then? Assume it's expensive?
Ad for aftershave with caption: smells like cold air on clean skin
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Lindsey Rachev @lrachev.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
There it is.
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Mo Fanning @mofanning.co.uk · 11/08/2026
This is my longest standing 'hot take'. Kids need to learn to be bored. www.independent.co.uk/life-style/k...
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Why I’m making sure my kids are bored this summer holiday
The school break can be a challenge, with new research showing kids would rather stare at a screen than get creative when looking for fun. But we shouldn’t be trying to fix boredom, says mum of two Ch...
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Mo Fanning @mofanning.co.uk · 10/08/2026
Just had an email. From Fredrik Backman. "As an author myself, I have genuine respect for the challenge of balancing comedy, suspense, romance, and character development without allowing one element to overwhelm the others." He's not wrong. He's also not Fredrik Backman. #AuthorScam #Publishing
Dear Mo,

I recently spent time with Husbands: Love and Lies in La-La Land, and I wanted to reach out because I enjoyed the way you take what initially sounds like an absurdly bad decision and allow it to develop into something much more complicated.

Kyle MacDonald waking up to discover that he has drunkenly married a Hollywood director is an immediately engaging premise, but what interested me more was what happens after that discovery. His decision to travel to Los Angeles turns a personal mistake into an encounter with a world where ambition, celebrity, relationships, and deception don't always operate by the rules he is used to.

I particularly appreciated Kyle's tendency to believe the best in people. That quality makes him sympathetic, but it also creates a vulnerability because the reader can see how easily trust can become a liability when the people around him aren't necessarily telling him the whole truth.

The Hollywood setting also gives the story an interesting contrast. There is the surface glamour of Los Angeles and the promise of opportunity, but beneath it is a darker environment where appearances can conceal very different realities. That tension works well alongside the humor and romantic elements.

As an author myself, I have genuine respect for the challenge of balancing comedy, suspense, romance, and character development without allowing one element to overwhelm the others. I'm reaching out simply to commend the work you've put into the book, not to pitch anything. I would also be delighted to leave an honest review and share my genuine thoughts about it.

I'd love to ask: when you first came up with Kyle's drunken marriage, did you already know how far that single decision would take him, or did the Hollywood adventure and its complications develop as you wrote?

Warm regards
Fredrik Backman
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Mo Fanning @mofanning.co.uk · 07/08/2026
Last chance: 99p until midnight. Lisa invented a fiancé to prove she was absolutely fine. Unfortunately, she gave him the same name as her very married boss. A sharp British romcom about friendship, pressure and pretending everything’s fine. www.amazon.co.uk/Lisa-Doyle-A... #RomCom #BookSky
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Mo Fanning @mofanning.co.uk · 07/08/2026
This is why we don't deserve nice things - and why there simply has to be an asteroid heading our way any minute.
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Mo Fanning @mofanning.co.uk · 07/08/2026
Ask me whose husband referred to his collection of cables and wires as 'neurotic and shameful'. Then ask me whose husband is eating his words now he can recharge his strimmer.
A collection of cables and wires - lots of them
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Mo Fanning @mofanning.co.uk · 07/08/2026
I had to hunt it down too. And there was a time when I knew what 'bubbling under' meant in Record Mirror.
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Mo Fanning @mofanning.co.uk · 03/08/2026
Everyone else seems settled. Lisa Doyle is 32 and absolutely fine. Fine enough to invent a fiancé, hire an actor to play him and continue lying until a wedding threatens to expose everything. 99p this week ONLY. books2read.com/absolutely
Yellow background with sticker 99p this week only. 

Lisa Doyle is 32 and absolutely fine. Everyone else seems settled. Please ignore the wine, the lie and the imaginary fiancé.

A warm, funny British romantic comedy
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Mo Fanning @mofanning.co.uk · 01/08/2026
She invented a fiancé. Then gave him her married boss’s name. At that point, honesty would have been sensible. Lisa Doyle chooses prosthetics, an actor flatmate and a fake wedding instead. Lisa Doyle Is Absolutely Fine is 99p this week. books2read.com/absolutely #RomCom #BookSky
Lisa Doyle quote and 99p flag to buy Lisa Doyle is Absolutely Fine in ebook this week for 99p/c
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Mo Fanning @mofanning.co.uk · 30/07/2026
My Blackbird Static chums are back with four new songs of summer... open.spotify.com/album/4qGQkp...
Pull me back by Blackbird Static on Spotify
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Mo Fanning @mofanning.co.uk · 23/07/2026
"I prefer talking to an AI chatbot about a problem with my gas bill or supply" is a sentence uttered by precisely no fucker ever.
Headline: ‘Customers prefer AI chatbots,’ says British Gas owner as 1,300 call centre jobs axed
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Mo Fanning @mofanning.co.uk · 23/07/2026
Today’s writing: 43 minutes identifying one tree on one street in Kings Heath. It appears for half a sentence, near where police pin up a Missing Person poster. Nobody notices when details are right. Someone always notices when they’re wrong. #AmWriting #HumanWritten
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Mo Fanning @mofanning.co.uk · 24/06/2026
It's here if you feel like a read to distract from all this hot weather thebooklist.co/books/lisa-d...
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Lisa Doyle is Absolutely Fine
Warm, funny and relatable, Lisa Doyle is Absolutely Fine is a sharply observed romantic comedy about pressure, pretence and what happens if the act slips.
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Debra Derr @nyghtbyrd.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Truly awful that this loathsome individual was re elected to the presidency as a felon, and is now an adjudicated rapist who has finally paid his court ordered penalty for defaming the woman he raped. How much lower can we fall?
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Mo Fanning @mofanning.co.uk · 14/07/2026
It's a lovely sunny day People everywhere are getting new moles to worry over
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Mo Fanning @mofanning.co.uk · 13/07/2026
I'm the same with tumescent
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Mo Fanning @mofanning.co.uk · 09/07/2026
🔥 SALE! "Lisa Doyle is Absolutely Fine" is £4.99 for a limited time. Lisa Doyle is absolutely fine. Grab your copy: books2read.com/absolutely #Romance #RomanceBooks #RomanceReads #BookBoyfriend
Yellow blob on blue background with the book title: 'Lisa Doyle is Absolutely Fine' by Mo Fanning. A bee flies from the blob and a woman in sweat pants sits cross-legged exuding calm in front of the blob
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Mo Fanning @mofanning.co.uk · 07/07/2026
Happy Flying Ant Day 2026
A flying ant up close
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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
The orange felon blames mail-in voting, immigrants and felons for destroying America, yet he marries immigrants, he votes by mail and he’s a convicted felon. Funny how that bullshit hypocrisy works.
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Mo Fanning @mofanning.co.uk · 04/07/2026
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Mo Fanning @mofanning.co.uk · 04/07/2026
Staying in a schmanzy hotel, and I’m just going to say it. I don’t hold with the whole bathtub in the bedroom thing
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Mo Fanning @mofanning.co.uk · 01/07/2026
New on Substack: The book launch hangover. Three weeks after publication, the adrenaline has gone and the wall has arrived. A piece about indie author burnout, ignored pitches, tiny wins, good people, and knowing when to stop. open.substack.com/pub/mofannin...
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The book launch hangover
Three weeks on - I've hit a wall
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Mo Fanning @mofanning.co.uk · 01/07/2026
Interesting to watch - because cancer never does truly leave you - even six years on, I still know it was there. Even if it's gone for now, it was there. www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...
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Lauren Laverne: 'Cancer never leaves you'
Lauren Laverne talks about going through cancer treatment and the effect it’s had on their lives.
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Left on the Shelf Book Blog @leftontheshelf1.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
On the blog today is my book list of the books I have read in June 💙📚 #authors @ajjacobs.bsky.social @ruebaldry.bsky.social @mofanning.co.uk @callistolodwick.bsky.social @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social
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Books I Read in June 2026
Left on the Shelf Book Blog Book Reviews Book Information Recommendations Writing Reading Books for Children Books for Adults Books for Teens Fiction
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Mo Fanning @mofanning.co.uk · 29/06/2026
Every author has been told to “build a platform”. In BookBrunch today - why the phrase has become lazy publishing shorthand, and what authors need instead: clearer reader routes, better promises, and less panic. www.bookbrunch.co.uk/page/free-ar... #BookMarketing #WritingCommunity #IndieAuthors
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Free Article
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Mo Fanning @mofanning.co.uk · 29/06/2026
It really is such a loveybook. If you ever get chance to listen to the audiobook with Penelope Keith and Russell Tovey, that's excellent.
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Mo Fanning @mofanning.co.uk · 29/06/2026
An absolutely beautiful book
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Mo Fanning @mofanning.co.uk · 27/06/2026
Mid-eyebrow zit popped up overnight. About to moderate a panel at a sold-out lit festival . Temptation to pick, pop and turn into a weeping sore is huge. Luckily, slap saving the day. Tell me I look literary... please
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Mo Fanning @mofanning.co.uk · 26/06/2026
It's that 'day before a literary festival' thing again. The one where all I want to do is vomit and lock myself in the bathroom until it's all over. Onwards.
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Mo Fanning @mofanning.co.uk · 24/06/2026
Another gorgeous review for Lisa Doyle is Absolutely Fine, this time from Bekky Clarke. A one-sitting summer read is exactly the sort of thing Lisa would pretend not to care about, while absolutely caring. books2read.com/absolutely #RomCom #UKFiction #BookReview
Review graphic on a yellow background. Large dark text at the top reads “reviews are in”. Beneath it is a quote: “This was super fun. But also super emotional and written wonderfully. It was a one sitting read and I would say a perfect read for summer.” The quote is credited to Bekky Clarke. Below the quote is a 3D image of the paperback cover for Lisa Doyle is Absolutely Fine by Mo Fanning, standing on colourful confetti.
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